Fort Drum soldier pulls extra duty delivering his own son

Fort Drum soldier delivers his own son
By GORDON BLOCK
TIMES STAFF WRITER
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012


FORT DRUM — He may not be running in and out of phone booths or reporting for the Daily Planet anytime soon, but newborn Kal-El Williams has an origin befitting someone named after the comic book hero Superman: He was delivered by his father, Sgt. 1st Class Antwan M. Williams, on the side of the road in Carthage the night of Feb. 2.

Sgt. Williams had been driving his wife, Andrea A. Williams, to Carthage Area Hospital from their home on Fort Drum.

While Mrs. Williams had felt some contractions previously, she called it a normal day to that point, and even had gone to work at the post’s Education Center, where she is a counselor. However, her contractions began to speed up rapidly around 9:30 p.m., at which point she knew the baby was coming.

As the Williamses hurried down Route 26 toward the hospital in their Ford Expedition, the contractions came even faster. About 3½ miles from the hospital, Mrs. Williams told her husband that her water had broken, and the baby’s head had emerged. At that point, he pulled over, turned on the SUV’s hazard lights and rushed around the vehicle to his wife’s seat on the passenger side.
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